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This character flunks out of school after spending time in taverns playing dominoes. This character's first wife starts coughing up blood a week after he learns she lied about her wealth. This character is told to conjugate the Latin phrase "ridiculus sum" (0[2])twenty times (0[1])after being mocked for being the only boy in the classroom who does not throw his cap on the floor. (20[1]0[2])This character (20[1])accidentally causes Hippolyte's ("ih-poh-LEET'S") leg to be (*) amputated (10[8]0[2])after (10[2])trying (0[1])to treat a club foot. (10[2]0[1])After the death (10[2])of Heloise (10[1])("el-oh-EEZ"), this character (10[1])marries a woman who has affairs with Léon ("LAY-on") and Rodolphe (10[2])("roh-DOLF") before killing (10[1])herself with arsenic. (10[1]0[1])For 10 points, name this country doctor, who is the husband of the title character of a Gustave Flaubert (10[1])("goo-STAHV flow-BAIR") novel. (0[3])■END■ (10[5]0[5])

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